1Virginia Woolf Mrs. Dalloway 2(No Transcript) 3World War I -- War in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

1914-1918

10 million soldiers died

Dead 2 x (number killed in all major wars from 1790-1913)

4World War I

It was in 1915 the old world ended.

D. H. Lawrence

The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our time.

Sir Edward Grey

It was while invalided in hospital during the Great War that I began to record notes and souvenirs of the times and institutions under which I had lived, realizing that I had witnessed the suicide of the civilization called Christian and the travail of a new era to which no gods have been as yet rash enough to give their name, and remembering that, with my friends and contemporaries, I shared the fortunes and misfortunes of being born at the end of a chapter in history.

Shane Leslie

5Virginia Woolf1882-1941

- On or about December 1910 human nature changed.

("Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown, 1924)

- Look within and life, it seems, is very far from being 'like this.' Examine for a moment an ordinary mind on an ordinary day. The mind receives a myriad of impressions--trivial, fantastic, evanescent, or engraved with the sharpness of steel. From all sides the come, an incessant shower of innumerable atoms and as they fall, as they shape themselves into the life of Monday or Tuesday, the accent falls differently from of old the moment of importance came not here but there so that if a writer were a free man and not a slave, if he could write what he chose, not what he must, if he could base his work upon his own feeling and not upon convention, there would be no plot, no comedy, no tragedy, no love interest or catastrophe in the accepted style, and perhaps not a single button sewn on as the Bond Street tailors would have it. Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged but a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

("Modern Fiction," 1919)

- I have an idea that I will invent a new name for my books to supplant 'novel.' A new ------ by Virginia Woolf. But what? Elegy?

(Diary, June 27, 1925)

6Virginia Woolf Mrs. Dalloway 7

- Austen stimulates us to supply what is not there. What she offers is, apparently, a trifle, yet it is composed of something that expands in the reader's mind and endows with the most enduring form of life scenes which are outwardly trivial.

(The Common Reader, 1932)

- For we are apt to forget, reading as we do, only masterpieces of a bygone age how great a power the body of literature possesses to impose itself how it will not suffer itself to be read passively, but takes and reads us flouts our preconceptions questions principles which we had got in the habit of taking for granted, and, in fact, splits us into two parts as we read, making us, even as we enjoy, yield our ground or stick to our guns.

(The Common Reader, 1932)

-But the great writer--the Hardy or the Proust--goes on his way regardless of the rights of private property. . . . he inflicts his own perspective upon us so severely that often as not we suffer agonies--our vanity is injured because our own order is upset we are afraid because the old supports are being wrenched fro us and we are bored. . . . Yet from anger, fear and boredom a rare and lasting delight is sometimes born. . . . Finally, that is to say, we are forced to drop our own preconceptions and to accept what the writer wishes to give us.

(The Common Reader, 1932)

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